Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

Purchasing, refinishing and selling antique radios is a home based business that can be started by just about anyone on a full- or part-time basis. Antique radios are highly sought-after pieces of ...

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Bruce Phillips collects radios, he has thousands of them, some more than 100 years old, and each one is a piece of art and a piece of history. He buys and sells them through his company "Radio ...

The ad for the antique radio would break many collectors’ hearts. It touted a Majestic Model 92, a floor-standing console made in Chicago in 1929, which featured still-gorgeous walnut veneer and ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.

Last month we looked at contributions to the art made by amateur operators, in particular advancements in Amplitude Modulation, or AM, and how it came to give radio its voice. This month, we will look ...

Nowadays we take for granted the ability to just turn on our car radio when we want news, music, or entertainment while traveling about. Such convenience was not always the case. Prior to the 1930s, ...

Growing up, I used the intercom system to broadcast 8-track tapes through the house like it was my own radio station. A lamp outside my door had a red light bulb, alerting passersby that I was ...

Old-fashioned wood-case tube radios are available from Paul Sanders Vintage Radios. Sanders himself finds the radios at flea markets and other sites, and restores the finishes, the electrical ...

A.bsolument turns your dusty old radio into a Bluetooth beauty with French savoir-faire—because even your granny’s relic deserves to sound magnifique, not like a cheap baguette crunch. I’m currently ...

This beautiful little radio may look like an art deco relic from a hundred years ago, but it is actually from 2023. When [Craig Lindley] first saw this design on these very pages a few years ago, he ...